Ian Austin

Ian Austin (6 March 1965-) was the Labour Party MP for Dudley North from 5 May 2005 to 6 November 2019, succeeding Ross Cranston and preceding Marco Longhi.

Biography
Ian Austin was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England in 1965, and he worked as a sports journalist before serving as a Metropolitan Borough of Dudley councillor from 1991. He went on to serve as the Labour Party MP for Dudley North from 2005 to 2019, when he lost amid a blue wave.